This topic comes up frequently. Sometimes a customer will have a set of existing service tests and the server has been changed to require TLS 1.2 and the service tests no longer work. Or the customer is trying to record a new service test using the General Service Client and can't get a valid response after invoking the request. The error message reported by RPT will be similar to: RPWY0002E An exception occurred in com.ibm.rational.test.lt.models.wscore.transport.impl.HttpTransporterImpl... [More]

The ClearCase and ClearQuest patches have been posted to Fix Central and are now available for download. The associated IM update sites are also "live". The 8.0.0.20, 8.0.1.13, and 9.0.0.3 download pages are available from http://www-01.ibm.com/software/rational/support/ and their URLs are listed below. We have all the URLs you'll need in one place. Find them below! CC 8.0.0.20: 8.0.0.20-Rational-RCC (aix4_power, hp11_ia64, linux_390, linux_ppc, linux_x86, sol_x86, sun5, windows, ccrc, ccrc.ext (English and... [More]

When using the RQM/RFT integration, you may run into a problem running RFT scripts from RQM when using Shared Location, which results in this error: The script cannot be executed You have this problem even though the RQM/RFT integration is set up correctly and the RFT script itself works fine. Symptoms RFT scripts run from RQM fail with the "The script cannot be executed" error, but the same scripts run from RFT itself work fine. If you reconfigure the problem script to use Local instead of Shared Location,... [More]

IBM Rational Functional Tester (RFT) is all about object recognition. If the graphical user interface (GUI) contains objects that Rational Functional Tester recognizes, you can record a sequence of actions. You can replay this sequence afterward. This post wants to introduce you to object recognition in Rational Functional Tester. The heart of object recognition in Rational Functional Tester is the object map. The object map is a graphical representation of the objects in your application under test that... [More]

As you may recall, in June, we announced that we were merging some of our social media channels to better manage the brand and cause less confusion for our clients. We specifically outlined the Rational Facebook page merging into Cloud Technical Support Facebook in this blog entry.... [More]